Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's Black Cat
Analyses of Black Cat
Do you believe that some mistakes drag you into another life? or Would you like to
torture something? Maybe, life will make you some errors and you will accompany it or you will
make your own way. Edgar Allan Poe narrates a situation in which making dilemma and
concluding murder, feeling of guilty, and addiction in his story Black Cat.
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author
poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was 34
when the story Black Cat was produced. The Black Cat was first produced in the United States,
The Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. As the story begins, the narrator is in jail
awaiting his execution, which will occur on the following day, for the brutal murder of his wife.
At that point, the rest of the story is told in flashback, as the narrator pens “...the most wild, yet
homely narrative...whose events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed him.”
The story, which is whole text, has many adaptations. For example, Universal Pictures
made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and
another in1941 starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone. Both films claimed to have been "suggested
by" Poe's story, but they don’t resemble to the story. The middle segment of director Roger
Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror combines the story of “The Black Cat” with that
of another Poe tale, “The Cask of Amontillado”. This version stars Peter Lorre as the main
character (given the name Montresor Herringbone) and Vincent Price as Fortunato Luchresi.
Writer/director Lucio Fulci's 1981 film The Black Cat is loosely based on Poe's tale. The 1990
film Two Evil Eyes presents two Poe tales, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and “The
Black Cat.” The former was written and directed by George A. Romero while the
Do you believe that some mistakes drag you into another life? or Would you like to
torture something? Maybe, life will make you some errors and you will accompany it or you will
make your own way. Edgar Allan Poe narrates a situation in which making dilemma and
concluding murder, feeling of guilty, and addiction in his story Black Cat.
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author
poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was 34
when the story Black Cat was produced. The Black Cat was first produced in the United States,
The Saturday Evening Post on August 19, 1843. As the story begins, the narrator is in jail
awaiting his execution, which will occur on the following day, for the brutal murder of his wife.
At that point, the rest of the story is told in flashback, as the narrator pens “...the most wild, yet
homely narrative...whose events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed him.”
The story, which is whole text, has many adaptations. For example, Universal Pictures
made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and
another in1941 starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone. Both films claimed to have been "suggested
by" Poe's story, but they don’t resemble to the story. The middle segment of director Roger
Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror combines the story of “The Black Cat” with that
of another Poe tale, “The Cask of Amontillado”. This version stars Peter Lorre as the main
character (given the name Montresor Herringbone) and Vincent Price as Fortunato Luchresi.
Writer/director Lucio Fulci's 1981 film The Black Cat is loosely based on Poe's tale. The 1990
film Two Evil Eyes presents two Poe tales, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and “The
Black Cat.” The former was written and directed by George A. Romero while the